On vacay with POTUS: How chief executives relax

Presidential vacations have held the public's attention as long as their have been presidents. See where the chief executives spent their summers.

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With a friendly pat on the shoulder, President Eisenhower says goodbye to California Gov. Edmund (Pat) Brown at the end of a courtesy call Brown paid to the president on Oct. 5, 1959 in La Quinta, Calif. The meeting was at the desert home where Ike was vacationing and trying to get rid of a cold. Both Eisenhower and Brown played golf that day, but on different courses. Brown was a Democrat and considered a presidential possibility in 1960.

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With a friendly pat on the shoulder, President Eisenhower says goodbye to California Gov. Edmund (Pat) Brown at the end of a courtesy call Brown paid to the president on Oct. 5, 1959 in La Quinta, Calif. The meeting was at the desert home where Ike was vacationing and trying to get rid of a cold. Both Eisenhower and Brown played golf that day, but on different courses. Brown was a Democrat and considered a presidential possibility in 1960.